On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:26:53 +0200, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

> Nekar Xenos <nek### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> I don't know if any of this has been tried yet, but I just think it  
>> might
>> work.
>
>   How about a simpler technology which is available today (and has been  
> for
> quite many years): Eye tracking.
>
>   IIRC he currently has to write everything using only two buttons, which
> is obviously quite slow. How about having a monitor with letters and an
> eye tracker that senses which one he's looking at. The computer can then
> highlight the letter and if it's what he wants, he presses a button. (Of
> course all kinds of auto-completion and suggestions can be used as well.)
>
>   Not completely real-time, but with practice it could almost be.  
> Certainly
> much faster than having to write everything by pressing two buttons.
>

I've always assumed that he was using eye-tracking, until I read up on his  
website. I wonder why he doesn't use that method.

Btw, if my second method could work, it might be very useful to composers  
and musicians. Imagine literally thinking up new sounds and actually  
hearing it through the speakers. Maybe even full compositions could be  
done this way!
It's a pity I don't have an EEG to experiment with ;)

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

"The spoon is not real"

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